How to get First and Last Day of Previous Month with Carbon - Laravel

I need First and Last Day of Previous Month using Carbon Library, what I have tried is as follows:

$firstDayofPreviousMonth = Carbon::now()->startOfMonth()->subMonth()->toDateString();
$lastDayofPreviousMonth = Carbon::now()->endOfMonth()->subMonth()->toDateString();

Result I'm getting is for$firstDayofPreviousMonth = '2016-04-01'(as current month is 5th(May)) and for $lastDayofPreviousMonth = '2016-05-01'.

I'm getting correct result for $firstDayofPreviousMonth, but it's giving me 30 days previous result, and giving me wrong result for $lastDayofPreviousMonth.

Can anyone help me out with this?

Solution 1:

Try this:

$start = new Carbon('first day of last month');
$end = new Carbon('last day of last month');

Solution 2:

Just try this

$firstDayofPreviousMonth = Carbon::now()->startOfMonth()->subMonth()->toDateString();
$lastDayofPreviousMonth = Carbon::now()->subMonth()->endOfMonth()->toDateString();

Updated code, which is more accurate

$firstDayofPreviousMonth = Carbon::now()->startOfMonth()->subMonthsNoOverflow()->toDateString();

$lastDayofPreviousMonth = Carbon::now()->subMonthsNoOverflow()->endOfMonth()->toDateString();

@kenfai Thanks

Solution 3:

With this ... the date start init on 00:00 and date end finish in 23:59

$start = new Carbon('first day of last month');
$start->startOfMonth();
$end = new Carbon('last day of last month');
$end->endOfMonth();